E subject of Pastorals, are in my opinion very unadvis'd; for all sort
of lewdness or debauchery are directly contrary to the _Innocence_ of
the _golden_ Age. There is another thing in which _Theocritus_ is
faulty, and that is making his Shepherds too sharp, and abusive to one
another; _Comatas_ and _Lacon_ are ready to fight, and the railing
between those two is
